Creative Businesses

The Genesis Foundation formed a partnership with the Prince's Trust in 2002 to support a new strand of Creative Businesses.

The aim was that these should be all new business ventures by young people that in some way were associated with the arts. The partnership was a natural coming together of these two organizations.

The Prince's Trust's Business Start Up Programme was founded to support young people seen as too 'risky' by conventional High Street lenders and this approach is something that appealed strongly to the Genesis Foundation, which is committed to spring-boarding young talent and helping people at that crucial stage of their careers when financial and other backing are often most difficult to find.

We were very happy about the five years we spent with the Prince's Trust and applaud their work. Since Genesis has turned its attention to other projects, and since we felt that we had launched successfully not only several businesses but also the concept itself, we are very happy to go on highlighting some of these businesses and will also update our information whenever possible.